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For zoned file systems garbage collection (GC) has to take the iolock and mmaplock after moving data to a new place to synchronize with readers. This means waiting for garbage collection with the iolock can deadlock. To avoid this, the worst case required blocks have to be reserved before taking the iolock, which is done using a new RTAVAILABLE counter that tracks blocks that are free to write into and don't require garbage collection. The new helpers try to take these available blocks, and if there aren't enough available it wakes and waits for GC. This is done using a list of on-stack reservations to ensure fairness. Co-developed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.